The military is looking at ways to modify its training for women to help them qualify for direct ground combat roles in the infantry, tanks and special operations.
Senior officers revealed the new effort this week at a hearing of the House Armed Services subcommittee on personnel.
The armed services have pledged that their standards for ground combat and commando operations will be the same for men and women.
But now commanders are raising the possibility of a two-tiered training system.
The idea was presented by Rep. Niki Tsongas .
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This is gonna get a lot of kids killed in a very short time the first time they try it in a hot LZ--Ray
ReplyDeleteRipcord should be required for everyone before volunteering for the combat arms. 50% would probably have second thoughts. Anyone who hasn't done so, please do. You won't regret it.
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"I've never read a better account of battle."
Minute to minute action down and dirty fighting against entrenched NVA in underground bunkers which were connected. The troopers could kill everyone in a bunker and minutes later it would be manned again. Imagine below. This happened when the good Captain killed a Chinese advisor 10 feet away who had just thrown a satchel charge at him. His chief complaint, after the satchel charge went off in his face and he later awoke 20 feet away, was that he had lost his shotgun.:)
"That ol' Winchester was a sweet-shootin' gun."
"The adrenaline was such that Rollison crushed the walnut slide of his shotgun as he pumped off the shots, then, his left hand stinging with splinters.........."
Highly recommended.
The next logical step will be all female Infantry units... Rangers Lead The Way! HOOAH!
ReplyDeleteI'll more than gladly let them assault first.:)
DeleteThis is just the neo-Malthusians trying to get us to zero population growth by killing off the women. Evidently the ruling elite see a need to feed young women into a cannon fodder career for the benefit of Gaia. Mandate that daughters of the ruling elite pave the way and the idea will disappear.
ReplyDeleteMandate that daughters of the ruling elite pave the way and the idea will disappear.
DeleteThat will do it.
Whats next in the race to androgynize our military?
ReplyDeleteEverybody gonna be issued pink M4s and M9s ?
Everyone will be require to sit to urinate at bootcamp?
Not saying that women can't fight, some can, but why would
a society ever want to send women to combat?
Only a society that wants to turn men into eunuchs.
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why would a society ever want to send women to combat?
DeletePrecisely.